Robert Dow

TV revolutions; the struggle continues

Post NAB, we’re thinking about how TV has changed in the digital age. IP TV puts television on every device with a screen. 3D TV seeks to bring everyone back into the living room. And then there’s gaming. There is an increasing number of people who are quite happy to spend their leisure hours playing games rather than watch TV. Does 3D change that?

To 3D or not 3D, that’s no longer the question

Visual stereoscopy, also known as S3D, has definitely come to the PC. It was actually always there, just not exposed. Soon there will be video stereoscopy available on your TV, you can see cinematic stereoscopy now in most metropolitan theaters in the industrialized world, and this time next year most new smartphones will offer web, game, and video stereoscopy content … Read more

Q1’10 Market Watch now available

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Jon Peddie Research announces first quarter shipments of PC graphics increase 44% year over year

TIBURON, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced today its estimated graphics chip shipments and supplier’s market share for Q1’10. For the year, 2009 came in above expectations with an 11% year to year growth, an amazing comeback. Q1 of 2010 showed traditional seasonal slowdown with everyone except Nvidia and … Read more

Moving toward the edge —it may be uncomfortable there

This week’s issue of Tech Watch looks at the inflection point we are entering with the end of the IGP and the introduction of the IPG—Integrated Processor Graphics. The question is, or at least one important question is, how does the IPG affect the discrete GPU? We also take a look at the latest, greatest GPUs from ATI and Nvidia, … Read more

Jon Peddie Research upcoming events

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New Report – Mobile Devices and their Semiconductors

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Mobile Devices and their Semiconductors

New report from Jon Peddie Research looks at 10 unique markets for mobile devices

Almost every year Intel’s Paul Otellini gets to be proven right

Paul Otellini says no other architecture has ever survived other than the x86. He cites RISC, Transputer, SGI’s geometry processor, array-processors, DSP, and others. Now he can add the Cell to his list. Last month, Sony said they would not do a Cell 2 for the next gen PlayStation, and last week IBM said they would not develop a Cell … Read more